{"id":1214563,"date":"2022-10-01T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/01\/ghana-has-banned-exportation-of-foodstuff-to-ensure-food-security\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:25:00","slug":"ghana-has-banned-exportation-of-foodstuff-to-ensure-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/01\/ghana-has-banned-exportation-of-foodstuff-to-ensure-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana has banned exportation of foodstuff to ensure food security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Food and Agriculture Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto says government has banned the export of foodstuff to neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Akoto says the move is aimed at preserving enough food in the country following reports of food shortages across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Kumasi, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto said Ghana is producing enough food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have officially banned the export of food to neighbouring countries to make food security even stronger. All our neighbours have faced very severe food shortages, and we want to keep food within the country, not only for human consumption but for our livestock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"EbgwQn6YWCU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Key Issues of Ghana&#039;s IMF bailout; food shortage in Senior High Schools - The Big Issue\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EbgwQn6YWCU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food and Agriculture Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto says government has banned the export of foodstuff to neighbouring countries. Dr. Akoto says the move is aimed at preserving enough food in the country following reports of food shortages across the globe. Speaking to journalists in Kumasi, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto said Ghana is producing enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}